interactivecode (u/interactivecode)

interactivecode commented on Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/clcaev

lgeorget · 20 hours ago

I guess one charitable way to look at it is that after a crash, external people could get access to the car and its memory, which could potentially expose private data about the owner/driver. And besides private data, if data about the car condition was leaked to the public, it could be made to say anything depending on who presents it and how, so it's safer for the investigation if only appointed experts in the field have access to it.

This is not unlike what happens for flight data recorders after a crash. The raw data is not made public right away, if ever.

interactivecode · 19 hours ago

that's like worrying about external people having access to the drivers wallet in the case of a fatal crash. Like yeah sure but it's more likely that Tesla is sketchy considering their vested interest is controlling crash data reports

interactivecode commented on What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? · Posted by u/ekusiadadus

marcyb5st · 11 days ago

More than that (which is an amazing feature, don't get me wrong) is the fact that there is a single app for every public transportation system in the country.

Compare that to Italy/France/Spain (those that I know) where, depending where you are traveling to, you have to download, sign in, and give your credit card details to N different apps in different states of disrepair/being barely maintained.

Virtual credit cards (I use Revolut) that I then delete mitigate that, but still, what a mess.

interactivecode · 11 days ago

In The Netherlands you just tap your card when you get in and when you get out. the fare is computed based on how many stops you went. No app needed. Supports all the virtual cards too like apple pay etc...

interactivecode commented on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC maruos.com/... · Posted by u/fsflover

interactivecode · a month ago

this is what I want iOS and macOS to become. 1 OS. Plug in your phone and get a computer. unplug and get a phone.

interactivecode commented on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/n... · Posted by u/ProAm

ponector · a month ago

>> in the space industry in Europe I bet they are not willing to take a huge paycut. Also the language barrier may be an issue.

interactivecode · a month ago

It's quite easy to learn proper English if you're American. I have friends who successfully accomplished the feat

interactivecode commented on An appeal to Apple from Anukari anukari.com/blog/devlog/a... · Posted by u/humbledrone

thraway3837 · 4 months ago

This is all just too much Stockholm syndrome. Apple’s DX (developer experience) has always been utterly abysmal, and these continued blog posts just goes to show just how bad it is.

Proprietary technologies, poor or no documentation, silent deprecations and removals of APIs, slow trickle feed of yearly WWDC releases that enable just a bit more functionality, introducing newer more entrenched ways to do stuff but still never allowing the basics that every other developer platform has made possible on day 1.

A broken UI system that is confusing and quickly becomes undebuggable once you do anything complex. Replaces Autolayout but over a decade of apps have to transition over. Combine framework? Is it dead? Is it alive? Networking APIs that require the use of a 3rd party library because the native APIs don’t even handle the basics easily. Core data a complete mess of a local storage system, still not thread safe. Xcode. The only IDE forced on you by Apple while possibly being the worst rated app on the store. Every update is a nearly 1 hour process of unxipping (yes, .xip) that needs verification and if you skip it, you could potentially have bad actors code inject into your application from within a bad copy of Xcode unbeknownst to you. And it crashes all the time. Swift? Ha. Unused everywhere else but Apple platforms. Swift on server is dead. IBM pulled out over 5 years ago and no one wants to use Swift anywhere but Apple because it’s required.

The list goes on. Yet, Apple developers love to be abused by corporate. Ever talk to DTS or their 1-1 WWDC sessions? It’s some of the most condescending, out of touch experience. “You have to use our API this way, and there’s this trick of setting it to this but then change to that and it’ll work. Undocumented but now you know!”

Just leave the platform and make it work cross platform. That’s the only way Apple will ever learn that people don’t want to put up with their nonsense.

interactivecode · 4 months ago

Oh please, every platform and programming environment has undocumented apis, workarounds and hacks.

interactivecode commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

glitchc · 4 months ago

Gradients would impose a significant burden on the bureaucracy. It's already complicated enough to figure out where a person's unique circumstances place them on various thresholds. Add gradients and the complexity grows exponentially. The net result would be a 100x increase in the number of public servants.

interactivecode · 4 months ago

why? income number input results in output number of support. or you know it could just be a of their part time income % with a fixed min and max. or something like a reverse income tax.

interactivecode commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

DisruptiveDave · 4 months ago

"never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"

interactivecode · 4 months ago

if feels like all too often malice is hidden behind the veil of incompetence.

interactivecode commented on Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task purplesyringa.moe/blog/wh... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

interactivecode · 4 months ago

While actually measuring and profiling is great.

In my experience most webapps can fix so much low hanging performance issues by mapping the API in a way that matches how its used in the client. It can remove so much mapping and combining for data all over.

interactivecode commented on A tuition-free school created by Zuckerberg and Chan will shutter next year cnn.com/2025/04/25/tech/c... · Posted by u/jszymborski

bko · 4 months ago

I think it argues the opposite.

The school was likely a failure. I couldn't find any stats on success of children but I find that telling as if it was lifting kids out of poverty effectively it would have been advertised. Its probably just not effective and the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Were this a public project it would have persisted indefinitely and have a lobbying constituency to keep setting money on fire.

We want more failed experiments. If committing to a venture where there is no off ramp if it doesn't work, no one will invest

interactivecode · 4 months ago

Instead of funding a school have they tried money to lift people out of poverty? I wonder what the success rate on that is.

interactivecode commented on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/jonbaer

code_runner · 6 months ago

Its sort of crazy to think about how big tech companies have a smaller and smaller window to be a "fun" and interesting story/idea. Facebook was pretty fun for a bit, google was obviously an idea factory for a while and even stuff like the doodles were a big deal.

Stuff like Uber and AirBnB were controversial at some levels but still generally "game changers" in specific industries and it was fun/interesting to be early adopters.

OpenAI was under the radar IRT public consciousness pre-gpt3.5.... we all had fun w/ chatGPT... and then immediately OAI starts generating headlines that are not fun/inventive/quirky. A lot of regulatory stuff, governments around the world. Instant globalization + general horror.

interactivecode · 6 months ago

There is so much "fun" to be had without new regulation shooting you down immediately. It's just that when you (or your niche) gets to a large enough size where it (might) impact enough people negatively. Regulations are needed. And if you ask me very sensible.

OpenAI has about 400 million weekly users at the moment. Can you imagine the regulations you would have to comply with if you want to serve 400 million sandwiches? or just run a parking lot for 400 million cars or literally anything else.